Amplify your academic integrity standards with Turnitin Originality
Deeper insights to help identify unoriginal writing and keep integrity at the core of all student work.
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Address emerging trends
Uphold academic integrity in the face of misconduct such as contract cheating, and navigate emerging challenges posed by AI writing and AI paraphrasing.
Establish authenticity
Harness submission metadata and writing analysis to determine whether a submission reflects the student’s own original work, and support meaningful student conversations.
Guide students to high-quality writing
Empower students with formative learning opportunities and timely feedback that fosters independent learning and writing confidence.
Inform decision-making
Clear, actionable data helps educators track student performance across their cohort and informs academic policy decisions.
How Turnitin Originality advances integrity
AI writing detection
The AI writing indicator shows an overall percentage of likely AI-generated text in a student’s submission, with a report highlighting text segments our model predicts were AI generated.
AI paraphrasing detection
Determine when likely AI-generated content may have been modified by a student using an AI paraphrasing tool or text spinner to evade detection.
Authorship report
An intuitive set of insights for investigators to gather evidence and identify whether cases, including suspected contract cheating, warrant further review.
Document metadata
Valuable analytics about the document help instructors identify patterns and detect anomalies.
Draft Coach™
Students receive real-time formative feedback on text similarity, grammar, and citations as they write, guiding them to make corrections before submission.
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Watch how you can harness AI writing detection—built with educators, for educators—to verify original work and enhance student learning.
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“I'm teaching with ChatGPT and getting the students to use it to assist with structuring their writing and brainstorming. I don't use it [Turnitin] as ‘Gotcha!’ detection. I use it as a heads up for me to follow up with my students and ask them to use more of their own voice."
Dr. Leslie Layne, Associate Professor, University of Lynchburg
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What makes Turnitin Originality different from other integrity tools?
Turnitin Originality provides a set of additional capabilities that supplement similarity checking and help address misconduct beyond plagiarism. It provides institutions with an amplified standard in academic integrity in the face of emerging trends. With features including AI writing detection and document details, it goes deeper into the submission and provides actionable insights to instructors to support responsible scholarship for their students and their institution.
How can Turnitin Originality help educators address contract cheating?
Contact cheating is harder to detect than traditional plagiarism because the content is original—it just hasn’t been written by the student. Instructors who sense a problem when reviewing student work often struggle to gather evidence to substantiate their concerns. Turnitin Originality uses advanced forensic linguistics built on years of research to identify when work is likely not written by the student. Educators can harness the Authorship report and document metadata to make their determination of whether contract cheating has occurred and support conversations with students to help them course-correct.
How does Turnitin Originality support student interests?
Through its comprehensive content database and opportunities for formative learning, Turnitin Originality helps students understand forms of misconduct and establish healthy writing habits. With Draft Coach, students benefit from real-time formative feedback as they write, encouraging them to grow as more independent learners and confident writers. Fostering a commitment to integrity via these workflows, Turnitin Originality deters students from engaging in academic misconduct such as AI misuse, helping equip students with future-ready skills.
In what way does Turnitin Originality guide teaching interventions?
Turnitin Originality provides instructors with detailed insights into student work, helping them pinpoint areas where students need additional support and align with their institutions’ integrity and quality standards. By enabling instructors to identify AI-generated content and contract cheating, for example, it facilitates timely intervention and investigation, while supporting student growth through targeted feedback and remediation measures.
How can Turnitin Originality inform academic policies and strategy?
Turnitin Originality supports institution-wide efforts to uphold academic integrity through data-driven decision making. For instance, the visibility offered by AI writing statistics enables administrators to understand how much AI-generated content is being submitted at their institution and use the data to inform appropriate AI usage policies. Administrator dashboards also enable administrators to assess the probability of contract cheating issues at their institution and understand which assignments present the most critical risk.